This Week on #Twitter: YouTube > Facebook, Twitter, Social SEO, Social Media Engagement

We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes news that YouTube has more monthly visitors than Facebook or Twitter, 8 reasons to combine social media and SEO, how to achieve true engagement with social media, 6 ways to say “thank you” on social media and a social media versus SEO smackdown.

What’s the number one social network around the world? Facebook, right? With more than 1.3 billion active users, Mark Zuckerberg’s platform dwarfs Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Google+ combined. But throw YouTube into the mix, and things start to get a little weird.

When social media really started to gain traction many were quick to proclaim that its success would lead to the death of search engine optimisation (SEO). After all, why would anybody use search when they could use social?

You’re about to launch an exciting new business online, but there’s one important question you find yourself struggling to answer. Which is more important: social media or search engine optimisation (SEO)? Maybe it would help to took a look at some of the key differences?

Twitter experiments with at least one new feature each and every day, and while most of these are simply that – experiments – some do move out of the beta process and become system-wide. One of the latest experiments spotted in the wild is inbuilt analytics within tweets, which tells you exactly how well (or poorly) your tweet is doing.

Twitter has made a couple of updates to its direct message system in the past few weeks and is looking to launch a complete revamp of the platform in 2015. Those changes probably can’t come soon enough, as direct messages have always been cumbersome to use. It’s also oh-so-easy to accidentally send a public tweet by mistake, as Twitter chief financial office Anthony Noto just found out when he accidentally leaked what appears to be Twitter’s plan to buy a company.